Burmese comedian Zarganar held for helping cyclone victims

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The man known to his fans as Zarganar is used to being locked up for nothing, but even by the standards of the Burmese dictatorship his present spot of bother is almost comically outrageous.

Two years ago he was banned from performing the comedy sketches that made him a national star, because too many of his jokes were about the military dictatorship. Last October he was incarcerated for three weeks for giving food and water to monks who were demonstrating against the regime. On Wednesday night ten policemen turned up at his home in Rangoon and took him away for